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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why should the standards be equal to apply to SWW, Banneker, McKinley Tech, and Phelps? Their missions/focus are quite different. [/quote]

How are SWW and Banneker’s missions different exactly? Both are rigorous college prep schools. [/quote]

I always thought Banneker was more STEM/Math focused while SWW was more general. Sort of like the difference between MIT and Harvard. Both good schools but different.

That being said, I could be way off base though. [/quote]

Nope. Very similar mission; both 5-star schools. The demographics are the big difference between them.

Banneker has higher PARCC scores and is majority-minority with only 2% white students. It offers both AP and IB classes.

SWW offers a ton of AP classes and is 47% white.[/quote]

Come on, Banneker's average SAT scores are only a tad higher than the national average, and they haven't produced a single National Merit scholarship semifinalist in a decade.  The segregated program serving mainly low SES students is certainly not on a par with Walls academically.  The latter school mostly attracts mostly UMC students.  Walls always has at least one semifinalist and in 2014 they produced a bumper crop: five.  No point in pretending that "demographics" vs. "academics" are the big difference between the two schools.  PC nonsense. [/quote]

Do you realize that demographics = [b]socio-economic AND [/b]racial factors, which you note that Banneker isn't on par because it is mainly low-SES students. In fact, only 25% of Banneker students are at-risk (vs SWW's 10%). However Banneker is 75% AA, 17% Latino, 2% white, and 3% Asian (Walls: 29% AA, 12% Latino, 47% white and 7% Asian). The racial factor IS significant, especially when you are discussing average SAT scores.

The national average is 1060. Banneker's is 1109; SWW is 1272.

So, both schools are about 150-200 points higher than average if you compare Banneker's average to AA or Latino (national AA average is 960 and Latino is 946). 
https://www.insidehighered.com/admissions/article/2018/10/29/sat-scores-are-gaps-remain-significant-among-racial-and-ethnic-groups
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